The New York Stock Exchange debuted a brand new trading room Tuesday morning before the opening bell. The space, dubbed “The Buttonwood Room,” is next to the main trading floor and houses units for NYSE stock and options market makers and ICE futures participants. Read More »

Fresh on the heels of Intercontinental Exchange Inc.’s proposed “grand bargain” between exchanges and banks to reform the stock market, BATS Global Markets Inc. has published an open letter with its own list of proposals. Read More »

It’s the headquarters of American capitalism, the front stoop of U.S. big business, the home base of the corporate chieftain. But the NYSE is also a faltering business, one that has seen its market share go from 80% to just 20% in just a decade.

Intercontinental Exchange Inc. is in the midst of a top-to-bottom renovation of the New York Stock Exchange, but there is another ambitious change under consideration that could leave a big impact on the look of the trading floor.

The idea is to restore it to what it once was: an immense trading room with clear views of the hand-carved wooden buttonwood flowers on the ceiling. Read More »

Euronext, the stock exchange operator set to be spun off by IntercontinentalExchange, plans to go ahead with an initial public offering next month, listing initially across three of its own exchanges. Read More »

Speculators slashed their bets that Brent crude prices would rise in the week ended June 25, reflecting a knee-jerk reaction to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s speech last month rather than a meaningful change in market sentiment, analysts said. Read More »